The electric era has been the general direction, and many car companies have already begun to lay out this field, but there are still a considerable number of models that have not given up the fuel vehicle market. However, with the continuous loss of the fuel vehicle market, many car companies have felt urgent, so they have to put down the "fragrant food" in their hands and start a transformation journey. For example, Lexus, electric models have long been emerging in China, and Lexus only put forward the prospect of pure electrification in 19 years, when it was expected that all its models would have pure electric versions in 2025. However, it has recently been reported that The first pure electric model RZ450e built by Lexus based on the pure electric platform will be launched in the world on April 20 this year. Let's take a look.
The exterior design of this car still retains the outline of the Lexus family, but the overall design concept is more conceptual. The front face adopts a fully enclosed style, which is in line with the traditional design style of the current new energy model. If you look closely, you will find that the shape of the grille and the style of the headlights basically follow its family-style shape. Similarly, the car's body shape also looks familiar, similar to the body shape of the Lexus RX. In terms of the rear, in addition to the more conspicuous back-up design, the taillights also adopt a through-line design, which shows that Lexus has also begun to introduce popular elements.
Judging from the photos exposed on the Internet, the interior design of the new car still maintains the traditional design of the fuel model, the car retains some buttons, and the center console adopts an asymmetric design, which is relatively simple with the current design of the new energy model, the overall interior layout is relatively compact, especially after the central control screen is biased towards the driver's side, so that the central control area looks more layered.
What is more interesting is that the steering wheel of the new car adopts a rectangular design, not a traditional circular design, which makes the interior, which is not too outstanding in science and technology, suddenly have a little more futuristic, which is a more bold design. Of course, the advantage is that there is no longer a worry about the problem that the ring handle will block the dashboard, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, when playing the direction, there is no round steering wheel easy to operate, especially the riders who prefer one-handed operation, it is more difficult to use the same operation method on this car.
The new car is based on the e-TNGA architecture to build, the platform also out of Toyota bZ4x and Subaru Soltera, although there is no detailed parameters in terms of performance, but from the above two models of power performance, the new car in terms of performance is still worth looking forward to, Toyota bZ4x maximum power of 150kW, the car WLTC working range of about 500km, it is expected that the performance of Lexus RZ450e will be slightly stronger.
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From the market level to analyze, the performance of the car after the listing may be different from the imagination, on the one hand, in the new energy vehicle market, Tesla and BYD have occupied a dominant position, not to mention the blessing of brands such as Wei Xiaoli. On the other hand, there is a pricing problem, lexus models are generally priced high, and pure electric models are limited by the rise in raw material prices, so the price may not bring hope to consumers. Therefore, in the face of high prices, how much will consumers be willing to choose this car? Therefore, the performance of the car after the listing is not optimistic. What is your view on this?